NEW SCOTLAND — Christine Galvin helps abused and neglected children who have fled their homelands in hopes of building a better life in the United States.

She has spent up to a thousand hours each year for more than five years working, for free, to help them.

Asked why, Galvin says simply, “They all need help.”

NEW SCOTLAND — At noon on Christmas Day, state troopers were called to a Voorheesville home for a dispute, which led to an arrest on Jan. 3 of a New Scotland man for robbery, larceny, and harassment.

At the New Scotland Planning Board’s Dec. 6 meeting, Ron Kay was given the OK to install the foundation on the second building of his development near the intersection of routes 85 and 85A.

The complaint states that, in the early morning hours of Sept. 9, 2021, Britney Lomio, 27, gestured to her mother, Roberta Princiotto, that she was choking.

The New Scotland Town Board on Dec. 14 named a new Natural Resource Inventory Committee, passed a long-in-the-works hamlet zoning-law update, and set a public hearing to update the town’s solar law.

New Scotland Town Board members on Wednesday OK’d approximately $324,000 for new playground equipment; about $23,000 to streamline the town’s general code; and put out to bid about $275,000 worth of work at the Hilton Barn.

Wendall Thayer, post commander of the Legion, said about 200 were fed in the Legion hall on Nov. 24 while another 100 received take-out meals.

Bill Howard, Delmar